Tag: By Douglas Ogbankwa

"Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people." — Mike Tyson The above ...

    “Precision is not just accuracy. It is elegance.” — Wade Boggs   Precision is the quality of being ...

    I am outraged whenever I see young Benin boys being killed in what are described as cult clashes. ...

There is hardly any family in Benin, Edo State, without a relative living abroad. Benin City records one of the ...

  The Silence of the Scribe I had taken a back seat in writing for some time. This hiatus was ...

  The prodigal sons have begun killing their prodigal fathers. Terrorists terrorise our terrain. Instead of calling a spade a ...

  What a Nation? Where the Execu-thieves Can’t stop thieving, the Legisla-chop, can’t stop chopping, and the judi-share-it can’t stop ...

  Being charged to court in Nigeria today is like being led on a road to Golgotha. There is a ...

  The law—too strong to catch the weak, Too weak to catch the strong. Seven days in Naija make one ...

  The English poet William Wordsworth famously defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, recollected in tranquility.” Indeed, ...